Have you always wanted to write poetry but don’t know where to start? Why not come along to this friendly series of FREE poetry workshops exploring the heritage and beautiful natural setting of Worth Park with our Poet in Residence, Patricia M Osborne. There are three workshops – on March 10, March 16th and March 24th. All are from 11-1.15pm. Then on Monday 8th April there will be a sharing coffee morning to celebrate our work.

The workshops will take place in our visitor centre, Ridleys Court, Crawley RH10 3DH. Please contact Patricia for more information on Patricia.m.osbornewriter@gmail.com. Free but booking essential – please contact edwina.livesey@crawley.gov.uk to book.

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Rupert Brooke

The Soldier

IF I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.